Crackling Mountain

The storyteller

Sarah Rundle got locked in a laboratory but tunnelled her way to freedom. She trained as a chemist but ran away to drama school, and for the last fourteen years has been a full-time storyteller, and sporadic actor. She has devised works for the British Council, Wellcome Foundation, Geffrye Museum, and the National Trust, and performed at Stockholm’s Fabula, the Nivesh Festival in Delhi, Kolkata Literature Festival, Festival at the Edge, and Sharjah International Book Fair. In terms of her repertoire, Sarah takes stories from all along the Silk Road — Japan, China, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Turkey, Arabia, Palestine, Italy, Finland and even folk tales from Britain. Her work has been described by the Crick Crack Club’s Ben Haggarty as “truly magical…. It sparkles with a particularly glorious English humour.”